What is Logic? "There is no scientific evidence that civilization is synonymous with Aristotelian rationalityˇ¦ the syllogism, the negation and the abstract classification are not discoveries of reality itself, of an eternal, absolute or self-evident truth-but simply linguistic inventions of conceptual tools which people find useful in varying degrees according to their life situation" Discuss this quote in reference to two different forms of knowledge: Physics and History. In order to comprehend what kind of role logic has in reality, as well as in different forms of knowledge, we must f....

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